Rim fragment of a Roman glass globular jar with collared rim, from the Iron Age broch of Torwoodlee, Scottish Borders

Red pottery jug coated with white slip with thin spiral red lines possibly to imitate glass and a hieroglyphic inscription in black ink, with a short neck and wide flat rim: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty

Dark buff pottery jar painted with red, yellow, blue and black lines to imitate glass, and with a rounded base and flat rim: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty,c.1550-1295 BC

Jar in black and green serpentine expanding in a curve from a flat base to a wider mouth: Ancient Egyptian, 12th Dynasty

Flat circular cover with check on underside for a black and green serpentine jar: Ancient Egyptian, 12th Dynasty

Jar in red earthenware with an ovoid cylindrical neck decorated with a modelled face and breasts forming two spouts: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Abydos, probably New Kingdom

Jar in red earthenware decorated with two zones of pale blue lotus petals: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Amarna, 18th Dynasty

Jar in pink-buff earthenware decorated with linear ornament in red and black, with a faded black in hieratic inscription on the neck: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty

Jug with handle in red burnished ware with an oblate body, decorated with linear ornament in black: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty

Jar in alabaster in imitation of a pottery wine jar upon a stand: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty

Jar in reddish earthenware with an oblate body on a ring foot, decorated with black lines: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty

Jar of earthenware with a flat base, short everted neck, and two wavy ledge handles: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Hu (Diospolis Parva), Predynastic, Naqada IIIa period, c.3500-3200 BC

Jar in red earthenware with a net-sling design in dark brown lines: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, possibly Abydos, Predynastic, Late Gerzean (Naqada II) period, c.3200-3000 BC

Jar of Egyptian alabaster (travertine/calcite) with two long wavy handles: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, number 288, Early Dynastic period, 1st-2nd Dynasty, c.3000-2686 BC

Jar of Egyptian alabaster (travertine), decorated with a twisted cord moulding below the rim: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Hierakonpolis, from unidentified site number 189, Late Predynastic or Early Dynastic Period, 1st Dynasty or earlier, c.3500-2890 BC

Conical jar sealing of clay retaining the pottery cap as its base and stamped with the serekh seal of King Den: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Abydos, Umm el-Qaab, 1st Dynasty, c.2982–2940 BC